New digital technologies bionics and bioroboticsbut also innovative care paradigms capable of exploiting technologies from prevention to home care, with this aim theIRCCS San Raffaele of Rome has opened a one-of-a-kind “technological” gym of over 1,000 square meters.
The futuristic rehabilitation
The facility is equipped with all the latest technological innovations, robots, visors and augmented reality, but also virtual assistants and exoskeletons for rehabilitation that allow for the creation of personalized protocols and objective measurement of responses. Particularly suitable for all neurological pathologies, such as those resulting from strokes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord diseases, polyneuropathies, but also for patients with orthopedic pathologies that compromise walking, upper limb movement or balance.
The therapies used
Each robotic device present is customizable and adaptable to the needs of the individual patient with usage solutions that can be easily performed and integrated into every situation of daily life.
The machinery present
In the over one thousand square meters of the structure, there are many cutting-edge machines that respond precisely to each different pathology. Like the G-EO systema robot for gait rehabilitation that allows the simulation of walking with climbing and descending stairs. Again the C-Mill VR+a special type of advanced treadmill, with augmented visual and auditory feedback to generate a virtual environment experience by projecting images both on the treadmill and on a large immersive monitor.
Furthermore, thanks to integrated instruments and sensors, it allows the measurement of the patient’s body’s center of pressure, and therefore the evaluation of gait and balance disorders, allowing the “training” of foot positioning and symmetry with increasing difficulty.
Rebalancing systems
There is still one machine present, theIt is which is a robotic seating and footboard system for the assessment and rehabilitation of the trunk, lower limbs and posture. The Oas, a particular system of rehabilitation of balance and control of the trunk, through sensorized supports and exergames. The machine also allows the evaluation of functional indices and the risk of falls.
Rehabilitation of various limbs
Il Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System: an interactive system for motor and cognitive rehabilitation in a semi-immersive virtual environment, with wearable inertial sensors and force platforms to strengthen the muscular structure. There are also many rehabilitation machines for individual limbs such as Motora special robotic shoulder and arm rehabilitation and evaluation system in exergaming.
Still the GLOREHA Sinfonia Plusa platform for neuromotor rehabilitation of the hand and arm, based on an exoskeletal soft-robotics system that recognizes and actively performs or supports the movement of individual fingers based on the residual motor skills of the patient who performs the exercise through a set of three-dimensional exergames that generate engagement to enhance adherence to therapy and motor relearning.
L’Armeo Power, a robotic exoskeleton for the rehabilitation of arm, shoulder and wrist movements. It allows the administration of robotic therapy through video games. Alex RSalso this is a bilateral robotic exoskeleton for upper limb rehabilitation. It allows for the administration of robotic therapy through video games, allowing the mirror replication of movements performed with the healthy limb, on the hemiplegic limb.
Finally theIndego Therapya motorized lower limb exoskeleton that allows therapists to perform specific activities and intensive training for their patients. Sophisticated actuators aligned to the knee joints and
of the hip, in symbiosis with technologically advanced sensors, enable control strategies, allowing people with deficits or paralysis in the lower extremities to maintain an upright position and walk again.
